The ECMWF operational implementation of four-dimensional variational assimilation. I: Experimental results with simplified physics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 564, 2000, Pages 1143-1170

  Rabier, F ^b   Jarvinen H ^b   Klinker, E ^b   Mahfouf, J F ^a   Simmons, A ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adjoint models; Analysis; Variational assimilation

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0342804504     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712656415     Document Type: Article

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